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The Work of UNICEF
The origin, policies and future operations.
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The Work of the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund is a statement laying out the origin, the policies and future operations of UNICEF. The statement was made to the Third Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations on 2 December, 1948 by Alan S. Watt and Eleanor Roosevelt in support of the joint draft resolution on UNICEF submitted by the Australian and United States Delegations to the United Nations.
Pictured above: Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady of the United States and chief US delegate to the UN Committee on Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Affairs (undated).
